Quote Originally Posted by Zack's Crotch View Post
Unfortunately, without Reks's death, Vaan wouldn't have had any story at all.
I don't think that the time spent with Reks is enough for the average player to care about that particular story point.

Most of the party is loosely tied together, if at all. One only needs to look to Penelo and Fran to see that individual character motivation wasn't a driving force in the character design for this game.